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INVALID AND CRIPPLE

DROPSY AND HEART DISEASE AFTER YEARS OP RHEUMATISM. MRS BOWIE OWES HER LIFE TO DR •WTI.TTA-Mg PINK PILLS. •" Rheumatism took me in the prune of life," said Mrs S. A. Bowie, wife of Henry Bowie, caretaker of the Otago Rowing Club Sheds, Jetty street wharf, Dunedin. "For twenty years it did not let me have one szogie saKtary day free from pain. For five years I was an absolute cripple with it. No words can tell the agony I wont through. Many a time I prayed for death. Four doctors agreed that I could not stand the torture for more lion two years at the outside. The pain alone would kill me. I thanked Heaven with all my heart when Dropsy and Heart Disease came to put a stop to my sufieriiigs without waiting adl tibafc X bad grrexx. -op aH. laope, wiben Mr Bowie read about a. case nearly the same as my own wiuch was eared by Dr Williams' Pink PSEsI I tried them—and here I stand to-day completely cured. It is a positive miracle. Dr Williams' Pink pais snatched me from the very edgeof the grasa. "When Rheumatism first attacked me I was then firing'on the West Coast, at Cobden, near Greymouti," said Mrs Bowie. anMe suddenly swelled up, and the pafrv was frightful. The doctors treated me for a bad eprain, but I got worse and souse- At last I was a confirmed invalid. The swelling spread up one leg, and then began in the other. That showed it was no sprain. It must base been in my blood. I cannot find weeds to describe what I suffered The pain broke down my nerves and undermined my whole health, I had no appetite, and my back was ahwaye aching. Bat, worst of all was my heart The least noise madeit jump and thuntpfike mad for a few urinates—and -then it seemed

to stop beating altogether. I Dover knew when I m ight drop <read with xL " AH this time I "waß growing was© and worse. I fasted the eight of food, and began ferine all strength. I used to wake up in the dead of night in »-cold sweat Often the bedding was soaked through. Somebody bad to keep wiping the sweat away. I -was so -weak from it that I could hardly Kft my band. A3 Has time I was suffering- untold tuUue from Rheumatism. For fine years I drifted on in this low, weak state, and ihe doctors tohi me I couH not Ev» another two years. —Ebey ordered me away to a better so Mr Bowie brought me over here, to Dtmedm, where he soon built up a. in shipping circles. Bat the janm did me so real good. I was a hopeless case. My legs swelled bigger and 4sgsec It moat base been Dropsy- My flesh maw ii i nil mi dough. When I pressed my finger on my lege, I could actually bury them in the flesh. I cosLd not get jny boots on. Walking was out of the qneatxon. I could only craarf at best. My life was one miserable round of pain. I saw nothing to live far, and often prayed to God that the pain would kill me. "Bv this time I had grven up all hope,'* Mis Bowie went on. s Gf conrae I had often read of Dr WHBams* Knk Mis, bat I only trailed at the thought of using them. one day, when suffering more than ever, Mr Bowie read of a ease almost exactly Eke my own. He neod it over and over again to me, and it gave me fresh hope every time. m BbvemberJSCS, ta»at I tin grocer's tor my first/box of Br Wflßams' TWr PiQsl I fancied that even that first box did me good. Certainly it gave me an appetite. I got more, and kept taking them till Fetenary, I9O>L Little by little the Dropsy in my legs went down. The jyaiHTtg Etbemmtio pains eased up in my joints and nnr™* loo My heart became soand and atvong. My nerves were uiat'jful Tip wonderfully. 3m a few weeks, instead of booking Efce a corpse, I got a clear skin : and fresh color- As my slsaMfch came hack. I was able- to get up and walk. Now lam in tie best of health, and feat delight to keep going all day with my nomewmk. Tberefc nodnhi hot Br WSEams' Pink P3te w*?r l r , *d a mm*** when they cored me. .

Br Will—mrf FSnk KHs worked this misaefo by actoaSy making new-blood for Hbs Book. They do _jmsb flu» odd thins—bnfc tbey <i> » WO. ■fliey don't ae* on the terns. They jOKt strafes? ateaigb* afc tfae aoot of all blood diaeasea Eks anawmia, akm trouble, hiTMiwm'HM, iuEgtatioo, Bwer oompkint, hawWhra, bacfeacfoa. kidney txoobke, kanbagu, jtamaatisin, scaataca. nroniirmrm. neazsufpo* general vaakness, dedme, ccaOTmption Cm its stages]* locomotor ataxia, and the oecset aftmeoU that come to gfacb and -women niea tfaeir blood becomes -weak, imgpgy «r hiemdai. Through ti» blood Br HBSamß* Pfak Effle. cDtdtixn jaa* aaaneJy as tbey cared £bs Bowie. B&fc, of oorae, yon-moat get tbargenaras- kind alaiji in boxes, sever ra bottta! Sold by ier»aww and the Br VGBmari >fr~fr«w Go, ¥MBngtaay at os

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Evening Star, Issue 12606, 11 September 1905, Page 8

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INVALID AND CRIPPLE Evening Star, Issue 12606, 11 September 1905, Page 8

INVALID AND CRIPPLE Evening Star, Issue 12606, 11 September 1905, Page 8